Meira fell in love with Flamenco as a teenager and began her extensive training in Los Angeles with Roberto Amaral and Carmen Mora. In Spain she spent five years studying by day and performing by night in several of Madrid’s best tablaos (Flamenco clubs). Meira appeared at Luisillo’s Los Cabales, Manolo Caracol’s Los Canasteros, and was the solo attraction at the Arco de Cuchilleros. She has performed with many of the giants of Flamenco, including Antonio Canales, Tony “El Pelao,” Diego Carrasco, Manolo Soler, Juanito Habichuela and Jose Soto of “Ketama,” Enrique Soto, Ramon El Portugues, El Guadiana, El Indio Gitano, El Chato de la Isla, Pepe Montoya “Montoyita,” Arturo Pavon, Dolores de Cordoba, Tito and Diego Losada, Chuni Amaya, La Repompa de Malaga and Raquel Heredia, Alfredo Lago and Antonio “de la Malena.”
La Meira has performed throughout the U.S. and Mexico in major theaters as well as in numerous film, television and club appearances. She has danced in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the American Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, Central Park Summer Stage, and Jacob’s Pillow. She has been featured in the companies of Carlota Santana, Fred Darsow, Pasion y Arte, Maria Alba, the Ballet Espanol de Los Angeles, and Ballet Flamenco La Rosa. Her most recent project is called “Al Compas del Flamenco,” a collaboration with friends which has been presented in Boston, New Jersey and New York.
Meira frequently choreographs for individual soloists and has been awarded choreography grants from the New York State Council for the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trust. She taught at Amor de Dios in Spain, in her own studio in Philadelphia, and at Times Circle (“Fazil’s”) dance studio in New York. She has taught at NYU, Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, Sarah Lawrence College, and FIT, and has done master classes, residencies and lecture-demos at NYU, Columbia, Temple, University of Arizona, University of Texas Pan American, and Festival Flamenco International at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
